Following the Civil War, Robert E. Lee served as President of Washington and Lee University from 1865 until 1870. During that time he gifted to the university this lock of hair consisting of over 40 strands affixed to the reverse of a portion of a calling card. Written in period ink on the card is “General Robt. E. Lee’s Hair.”

The lock of hair was later in the personal collection of Dr. Robert Foster Bradley (1889 – 1979), a professor from South Carolina who was head of the Romance Languages Department at Washington and Lee for more than 24 years during the mid-20^th century; he was professor of romance languages emeritus from 1960 through 1979.  Included with the hair is a photocopy of a typed letter of authenticity from Bradley’s granddaughter acknowledging that he was given a calling card of General Lee’s.

The calling card with the strands of hair is housed in a period photograph case.    [ph:L]

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